Authors Notes; Welcome readers to my next Pokémon story but its isn't a simple one, although the first chapter will have not much content of Pokémon it's just to beginning the story, and without further delays, Pokemon Belongs to Nintendo, Gamefreak and other respective owners. Enjoi the story :3
And all the Characters are not real people any similarities are by pure coincidence.
Year Walker: Universes Heart
Chapter 0: Prologue 1/1
~+~+~+~+~ Swedish Country side, 2015 ~+~+~+~+~
The legends and folklore all spoke of Year Walking, as a fashion to see the future or get a grip of the year's weather. I honestly never thought it'd be anything like this, but for you all to understand what has happened ill start at the beginning.
While dicking around on the internet I saw something called Year Walking although some idiot makes a game about it and made it seem epic, it really isn't like that at all. And all the folklore made it seem like nothing but like someone doing their laundry, but really experiencing this was interesting. Well life altering down to my very atoms, so I asked my grandmother whom as children told us stories about Year Walking and other Scandinavian folktales, but when I came to her this year and asked more about Year Walking. She looked intrigued but had a face of fear once I told her more and I said I wanted to try it, all she did was tell me one thing after I said that.
-"Go to our family birth place, here's the latitude and longitude of the old villa. There is an old chapel there that has been used before for Year Walking by my great Uncle Dantelion, preformed the ceremony there. The new year's coming up if you want to make it for when the Void is at its strongest, I'd be leaving tomorrow if you plan on doing it." She said to me before I left home for the last time, little did I know this would be my last few days on this earth. I jumped in my small compact, and took off towards my current home town to pack, and bought a ticket to Sweden.
Once I got home, I packed extremely and briskly booked a ticket that left in three hours. The security and the boarding felt like a haze, it all went by all too fast, before I knew it I was in Sweden Capital and was about 180km from where I needed to be within 2 days, and at least one full day to prepare for my Year Walk or Årsgång.
I exit the terminal, its December so there is a nice amount of snow and the air was cold, not enough to make me shiver but the wind had a brisk coldness to it and I could see my every breath in the air. I called for a taxi, one of the many pulled up to me and I jumped in, greeted the driver.
-"Eh-Hey umm do you understand English or would I need to use French?" I ask timidly, the driver gives me a hearty laugh and nods then responds.
-"Yes, I can speak English I'm not the best in it but I work as driver you see. So after meeting enough folks you pick it up." He says and continues. "Where to, and welcome to Sweden, is it your first time here?" I just nodded smiled.
-"My family used to live here before the my ancestors were called by the King to go be one of the first ten families in the new world (Canada), so they left and respected the kings wishes being the Men-at-Arms they were to the royal family. Oh yeah the Car rental place that's like half way across town I think heh" I said to him, He smiled and decided to continue the conversation.
-"Really huh, that interesting but why'd you come back to the old country then, oh where are my manners." We stopped at a light and he turned and stuck out his hand. "I'm Ivan; I usually don't be this friendly with travelers because most are too busy taking pictures of everything. Hehehe, but you wanted to talk abit but you seem like you came here for a reason." We both share a laugh but I continued. "I'm doing a project for college we're doing Folklore and other things I choose something from my origins and so I choose the old tradition of Year Walking, oh yeah I'm Nathan or Nate." Ivan gives a hum in response and smiles. "The practice hasn't been done in a while but I'm sure you can find some older folk who remember some details about the legend and lore about em'." He said and stopped the meter. "We're here." Ivan said as I looked and we were indeed at the Car rental kiosk I smile and pull out my wallet.
-"Thanks and how much would the ride cost?" I tell Ivan but he only puts his hand up and says. "It's on the house, I know how your North American schools work, and they bankrupt you before so you're a stingy bastard from the start, hahaha!" Ivan said as I jumped out I waved so did he and away he went in his cab. I turned an entered the Kiosk and the rest also felt like a blurred dream, next thing I knew I was turning down an old road which had the same Latitude of what my grandmother wrote down.
After driving down this old beaten down path and had a constant check on my longitude, I arrive at some overgrown stone path that I almost drove past but there was something there that got my attention… some lady in a silk dress… now for me that's a new one. I stop in front of the path check its longitude and it's a match but needed a few more decrees so I'm assuming the Villa is this way, but there is no way I'm making it through there in my car. It's like not even a foot wide, so I decided to go on foot, I turned off my car grabbed my backpack full of cloths. I lock the doors and begin walking down the path, it was kind of like a hike but I knew what I have planned. Back then I didn't know it would work but hell, I continued onwards and found myself at a clearing with a fairly decent sized home, and chapel in the distance. So I go up to the home and knock on the door, it's getting kind of cold. No answer so I open the door and see most of the home is still intact and doesn't have much in its besides stairs an empty first and second floor and a room that looks like it a dark room, of sorts. No windows and is made out of a dark oak so it blends better if the rooms door was shut, and what stood in the center of the room was a lone chair. I decided since tomorrow was my Year Walk I decided to fast until after I'm done and before I go back home, indulge in the locals foods.
I set up my sleeping bag and futon light a small gas heater and fall asleep for the last time, at least here at home.
~+~+~+~+~ Sweden December 31, 2015 06:00 Year Walk begins 23:00 ~+~+~+~+~
I awake feeling refreshed and decided to do the mourning business, I step outside and whilst pissing, a woman-like being stood motionless by the church. I assumed it was cause I just woke up and my mind was still in dream land, I turn and go back into the Villa with the woman-like being gone, which in turn made me believe my theory even more. I step back inside and begin the Year Walk or Årsgång ceremony, I step into the dark oak room and shut the door behind me and the darkness was almost unbearable but was needed to be done until 23:00 then I can come out and do the paces around the church and blow into the keyhole enter and boom something should happen or at least I hoped at the time for something.
-"Sigh" I let out.
~+~+~+~+~ Sweden December 31, 2015 23:03 Year Walk Started ~+~+~+~+~
This feeling, it's strange… I've never had something similar ever happen but I just feel like the earth its self s giving off a beat. A beat that almost mimics a beating heart, I tried to ignore it and burst out of the room and house hoping it would stop but it didn't all it did was continue and now I realized what's going on, the Year Walk has begun and the sky went from its usual dark-purplish black to a tone of red-black.
-"Holy crap this is different…" I exhaled and turned towards the church and did the beginning steps, I walked three times to the right all around the old chapel, three times to the left and stood in front of the church hesitating to do the last step. But the strange audible and physically felt now heartbeat made up my mind for me as I blow into the Keyhole and entered the church. There was nothing there I laughed and laughed, I wasted this much money and time on mad man's hunt, deep down I thought that was it but the curious side of me got my ass moving and I entered the church but as I got half way the doors slammed shut and the beating resided. I had my attention towards the door but I felt a harsh and heavy coldness coming from right in from of me, and I turned there stood some mist it was just a hazy mist that produced a random heart that appeared. Dumb founded I stood there mouth agate and soon the mist turned into a more physical form, it was the same woman from before and she spoke to me this time instead of disappearing.
-"It's been a long while since I've meet a human this foolish to do this out of the same terms as yourself but that's none of my concern now is it. Oh so you're of that blood line it seems." She smiled viciously. "Now to finish the ceremony… crush my heart here with you hand." The voice spoke like silk and was smooth, I snapped out of my gaze and looked at my hand and before I could do anything the woman grabbed my hand placed it over the heart and made me squeeze.
*Clsh-Splosh*
With that my vision went black again and I felt like I was in a weightless void but as I moved shards of darkness turned to light, I began thrashing all over and soon I am in a void of white, floating in a straight direction. I'm soon met by some light crystal, I look at it and it flashes so I float over and put one hand on it, soon shards began going all over and disappearing but each time it did the white cracked red and slowly the whole void was red and the crystal was gone. Soon an eye opens from the where the crystal was, and it examined me for what felt like months but I knew it was merely seconds or minutes.
-"So it seems yet another one came requesting to see the universes heart and nothing else although, you humans think it's okay for you to come here. There is always a price to pay when seeing me or the others, you're invading my body and causing a shift in Time and Space themselves, or how you simpletons call it. A paradox or whatnot, Your Ancestor came here for with the same question and I'll tell considering the price you'll be paying for this… Most Year Walkers we're simply to see if crops would be grand that year or if there would be a plague, others did it for love or something else. Not many asked the questions you did, only a certain few did but none ever left the punishment containment." I wanted to protest but I felt as if my voice was lost. "No talking human, you wanted this and since your resolve was to find the secrets of the universe you'll be given them but be paying the same fate that every other moronic idiot decided to ask such a thing. So here see all there is to be known and have some fun whilst being in the deepest corner cell of the universe." The eye somehow developed a tentacle and touched my temple and said these final words. "You wanted the knowledge of 'God' well my dear creation here it is…" As he said those words, I felt something that couldn't ever be fully described on paper and pen, I felt everything. I knew everything, from the moment that my mind was shown way too much for it to handle, I felt as if I was there during every occurrence since the beginning of this beings… or Our Universes development. Much was wrong with our human theories of the Universe, I know now that our existence is one that is similar to our cells in our bodies. We're a portion of its body that produced amusement or joy but recently we've become more of a nuisance than help, the whole Universe is one living being that controls everything; it has a mind and conscious. All those being described in the Year Walkers Folk Lore are Anti-bodies of the Universe, they leave and re-enter existence when needed. They read the Year Walkers heart and mind, and find they're resolve to coming to the heart of the Universe and determine what decree of punishment the Year Walker receives after their systematic Error of the Universe. We humans are so easy to manipulate, as shocking the question the 'Watcher' asked made me freeze and apparently something similar happened to other Year Walkers and depending on what they wanted to see and how it would affect Time and Space. If the demand isn't too problematic with the stability of the Universe, they can return back to Home or Earth. For some people whose question was for their own gain would get to return, But in a state of temporal Madness and will do whatever the Watcher that greeted them bid or you can never return to Earth and if you did the knowledge you know would cause a tear in Time and Space. So I can NEVER return to earth unless I want a 'Black Hole' or also known here as a swarm of Watchers taking care of a large Paradox.
Suddenly the feeling of enlightenment ended, and I was in a dark void again and the Eyes voice came through. "There's what you wanted now sit and think about it for the rest of your mortal and spiritual life-times, I also might stop by occasionally for an Intellectual to Intellectual converses." With that the presence and voice left me to my thoughts and void of weightless, darkness…
~+~+~+~+~ Time elapsed 'Universes Heart' 21Months 85Days 22:38Hours ~+~+~+~+~
"I think it's lovely." "NO it's horrible!" "Hahaha they're getting blown to bits!" "What the fuck is wrong with you bastards…"
This really sucks the damned Watchers decided to show me Earth yet again, it has been bloody and disgusting. This new 'World Relieve' Company or privately known as the 'Syndicate' have been creating bloody messes all over the planet, we just finished watching them carpet bomb 'Terrorists' but from what I've seen are people refusing to leave their land, because these bastards want the Oil and Jewel deposits there and it's quite sickening but after being here for almost 2 years with these twisted bastards there is almost nothing else I can do but watch and think. Finally the last wave of fighters flew away and let the flame burn out, before sending trucks in to clean up, and this is why 'Universe' doesn't allow humans to go unpunished after Year Walking because most of our hands and minds are already soaked in blood or any other thoughts and emotions.
Although his Watchers aren't as peace loving as him, they enjoy the human's primitive ways at solving problems by shooting it with hundred pounds of pure explosives; I just can't wait to get out of here. After having the same level of thought as 'Universe' I came up with a way to leave, although I won't be returning to earth and such I've found a Universe that makes up the Imagination of 'Universe'. Most of them I couldn't live on, I can only sense the atmosphere of the planets, I found one that would work and there is already a void there so it'll make this whole thing easier. I just got to wait until the 'New Year' so I can leave and use the least amount of power possible, after being here for so long I can now preform basic telekinesis and mind reading well, on humans anyway, I still cannot read the Watchers nor 'Universe' but still it's something I guess.
"Hey human look at this! You'll like this!" I hear the Goat formed Watcher; all I do is open my eyes with a moan and put my attention on the Psychic projection screen.
What I see is shocking the masked man I've seen from other Syndicate jobs but without a mask and running away from what seems like 4 brigades of Russian troops, all I could do was think Karmas a bitch, this guy is one of the coldest of them all. 'Masked Fiend' is what the Terror-groups and other organisations call him, asshole doesn't drop dead no matter what is the rumors, but I almost saw the bastard die in Shang Hai he only lived because I had a moment of pity and altered his course by an inch so he would hit the trees and not concrete, that's when I learned I had telekinesis but damn did 'Universe' ever give me hell and the Watchers… It makes me shiver thinking about it, so never did I again show any emotions but anger and nothing else. So as I watch the unmasked fiend, get hit in the shoulder and fall into a ditch. I remembered hearing about what his mission was this apparently 'Teleportation Device' that can take you anywhere even through space, I laughed when his superior spoke of it and when she said go and steal it all of us laughed.
So I humored myself and the Watchers by sending him a message. "Open the case and press the device on the ground." I say out loud but he will hear it telepathically, the Watcher who was the one who lured me in the Void was about to protest but the Goat Watcher just stuck out a hoof. "Wait, I like this guy's sense of humor, from what I gathered about that thing the human will end up in space and die an amusing death." He pats me on the back, it was somewhat true but I was tweaking the device so it went to the Planet I selected. At least ill have an Ally there when I leave…
I got up and left and jumped off the stable portion of space and floated away from the group in a swimming on my back motion, I waved goodbye and floated away.
-"Hey the big man is going be stopping by at some point so be ready for a Master-Debate!" I hear the Goat scream at me; I just sigh and mumble out. "What a drag… damned bastard always comes when I'm low psychic energy, I guess he knows I've been fooling around again."
~+~+~+~+~ Time Elapsed 'Universes Heart' 23Months 364Days 22:55 ~+~+~+~+~
I've been isolating myself for almost three weeks and not eating for five days, I have a large amount of Psychic energy built up but when I go I'll be weak for a bit but once my energy comes back I will be fine. I come out of my isolated Location and quickly begin my planned jump to the Universe I selected, although 'Universe' knows right now what I am doing and is sending the Watchers here but it'll be real~ too late to stop me because I'll be gone.
-"You're clever Human but If you chose wrong on where you return… You'll be dead before you awake after using this…" I hear 'Universe' speak to me, I summon my Void and it appears , I jump through it and as I'm going I feel all my psychic energy being stiffened away. I look down and see a Void open there and so I look upwards and see mine is shut from the Heart, so.
-"No bitching out or GOING BACK!" I scream as I swim towards the new Void and as I Exit I my vision goes white then slowly fades to reality and I see a beautiful night sky and moon greeting me, I smile I pump a fist in the air but I feel like I'm on a windy cliff my back fe-… I turn around and see I'm falling towards some continent with some light and visible cities scatted among the area and a large mountain in that splits the whole region into two, there are three large lakes and I'm right above one of them that are like 30 miles or so from an extremely small town. Not even 50 houses, so I aim for the lake and pump the remaining of my psychic energy underneath me to break the fall into water although ill still go as deep as I would from falling from this high I won't feel the contact with the water, which at this height would be like falling on concrete.
-"Nice choice, Year Walker… if you do not speak of the knowledge you know of, you may stay there where ever you jumped to but remember this… We're always watching…" I hear 'Universe' say for the final time, and it was the last time I ever heard his voice. I'm now literally second's fro-…
*CRACK-SPLOSH*
Damn… didn't have enough energy… still felt a lot of the landing damn it…
I let out the last of the air in my lungs and but right before I lost consciousness a blur on green and purple psychic energy surrounded me…
End Prologue: Part One of One (1/1)
Authors Notes: Here's the small beginning chapter to this story if it get some attention ill post another chapter before the next 'Undesired Departure' Chapter but either way ill be posting another sum of chapters, but anyways thanks for reading and as always.
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